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Blade & Soul Beta Thread: East Finally Meets West
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Unknown Soldier
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I'm running a 5820K at 4.3 ghz with a 980 Ti and I was still getting frame drops in town when a lot of other players were around. This game is not optimized for anything, period. It's a Korean UE3-based MMO, it could not be worse optimized unless they purposely put code in to tank the performance just to trololol the players.
1v1 PvP in the Arena shoul be fine though. Out in the field and in dungeons where very few other players are around, it should also be fine. To prevent wildly fluctuating frame rate, set a 60 fps cap, don't let it jump around between 150 and 15 fps.
http://download.bladeandsoul.com/BnS_Lite_Installer.exe
Save peeps time.
Also if peeps want to skip getting a new download...
https://www.reddit.com/r/bladeandsoul/comments/403d9g/guide_cbt_client_to_retail/
Saves even more time.
It seems it is up for grabs as soon as you delete the character, as this is specifically mentioned in the launch guide
Lolwat? 'tis a Korean MMO with fast, actiongamey combat. JRPG and WRPG are both totally off the mark as terminology goes.
If you pre-ordered either the Disciple or Master Pack you'll get a voucher to alter the appearance of your character. That's what some people plan to use in order to increase their chances of getting the name they want.
Spaces are allowed, not required.
Thanks, I'll have to sit on it this weekend and see if I want to dive in or not.
Unknown Soldier
Member
BnS launch client supports 2-factor authentication guys. If you haven't already set it up for Wildstar, you can do so for BnS by logging into http://www.ncsoft.com/account and setting it up. You'll need a smartphone running iOS or Android.
Good looking out.
Good... Good. Soon all of GAF will be stuck on b&s.
Oh boy, I sure hope no one takes the name "honeybun" at launch!
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Ok thanks will try that and see if it improves my fps.
Drops in town would be fine, however my drops occur at total random anywhere on the map. Even in those transitions zones where I'm all alone. The fps just drops to 40 and then goes back to 60 in a second, but it's enough to feel as if the game just froze for an instant.
I'll try some tweaks and see if it changes anything. I'd really want to give this game a shot.
Toothless Spoon
Member
I'm literally talking to a mate about this at the moment. We both experienced the problems, and he found something about it being a cpu issue (which doesn't surprise me). From memory, the game used like 2gig VRAM and 60% GPU usage. Cpu usage was all over the shop. Being that it's an old game, it's probably more likely that it doesn't like to play well with modern cpus - which I doubt they will fix.
Yeah I was able to up my fps by setting B&S priority as High in the Task Manager, I tried some settings in the Nvidia Pannel, but it doesn't seem like I'll be able to get rid of those that way either.
Sadly after some research I'm not confident enough to overclock my CPU, so that's not an option either.
I'll still give the EU version a try in case they fixed some things after the Beta, one can hope
Sadly after some research I'm not confident enough to overclock my CPU, so that's not an option either.
I'll still give the EU version a try in case they fixed some things after the Beta, one can hope
Finaika
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*hugs 2500K*
VanillaCakeIsBurning
Member
Just need to install the retail version and I'm all set!
I guess I can uninstall the closed beta version since all the saved character templates are in a different folder?
I guess I can uninstall the closed beta version since all the saved character templates are in a different folder?
Yep. I made a copy of my creation folder as I was unsure if it would get deleted when I uninstalled the CBT client, but sure enough it was still there.
Not at this time.
Damn! Just bought an SLI Ultrabay for my laptop, hoping I'd be able to run it on max settings that way. Sad to hear that won't be the case.
Have they said anything about working on it? Does the 4 year old Asian version support it yet?Thanks again!
anothertech
Member
Oh, do we need to actually uninstall the CB version and reinstall? I thought it would just update the client when the new version was ready. Bummer.
The English release is getting new hairstyles at launch? Are those hairstyles available in the Asian versions for creating characters now?
Not sure. All it says is this:
Here: http://www.bladeandsoul.com/en/news/launch-guide/
Wait... Damn. New facial customization options too?
Welp. Gonna delete my character saves now. Gonna restart anyways from scratch.
Edit: just a funny thought when I was thinking about skin tones... I wonder if anyone was successful in making Hsien Ko?????!!!! She's my favorite undead waifu.
Thanks for providing a link Yam's.
RIP
Looking at the page they state it's not necessary to uninstall previous clients, but recommended. I just did it to be on the safe side.
Nope. We'll be the first region to get the new hairstyles and colors.
We're going to be rolling on the Mushin server and joining the Cerulean Order faction. Just a heads up right now, server is going to be very populated at launch, so there may be a bit of a wait time for those that don't have a founder's pack.
SixMachine
Member
Damn, I didn't play the closed betas since I bought it too late, but I downloaded the game ahead of time. Oh well, I hope they allow us to pre-load with some time before head start
If you want to get the launch version of the game you can download it here.
They were giving out headstart codes to random winners during their stream on the 7th, don't know if they're doing any more giveaways.
Apologies in advance, but I have little experience with Twitch. ^_^; I clicked the link, and it shows his black screen offline feed, and I went to his past recorded videos and most popular, and didn't find a tutorial video anywhere there, either.
Thanks for the further info!
Unknown Soldier
Member
Are you playing the game off an SSD? That sounds like the usual UE3 high framerate hitching and stuttering due to asset loading and streaming.
After the black screen, you scroll down a bit to see the instructions.
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Copy pasted the instructions from the channel below for convenience:
I didn't install the game on my SSD, will give that a try then.
Edit: Ok it seems a bit better on my SSD. I still get some micro-freeze, but not as often. Gonna try a ping booster too in case this has anything to do with my ping (I doubt it but we never know).
Unknown Soldier
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A summary of what content will be given to us at 45:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8xByxSFZ5A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8xByxSFZ5A
Wow. Thanks for sharing. That is some major kick-assery right there. I am SUPER pumped to play now, gonna devote all of release day to BnS jetlag be damned.
Here's something we can look forward to getting if we get enough people to gather resources to level up the clan.
We could come up with some pretty interesting designs.
Name reservations open at 6:00 PM PST. We don't have a time frame of when content patches will hit other than their intent of being aggressive with them.
We could come up with some pretty interesting designs.
Name reservations open at 6:00 PM PST. We don't have a time frame of when content patches will hit other than their intent of being aggressive with them.
TomcatTheLion
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I should probably look into class show videos (if they exist). Still not sure what class I want to roll with.
No, this is not the case.
UE3 and MMOs are extremely per-thread performance dependent, always have been. It's just that since it only uses 3 threads, modern CPUs are more or less near the same kind of performance as older parts like Sandy Bridge, when clocked similarly.
Most of the stutter should cease once you get your proc over 4.0 GHz, though anything physics based will still cause frame time increases well over 50ms when it hits.
It's just a really old and shitty engine, designed almost entirely for the X-Box 360.
*edit*
Here's some tests I ran on another UE3 game. It's the same for all of them.
Thinking about posting the OT today so people can get all the info they need, as well as making sure people roll on Mushin server for launch as name reservation is this evening.